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Well, you've got some choices to make. You can embrace the change or you can fight it.

Perl 6 is Perl 5, but more so. I'm not talking about the internals. I'm not talking about the syntax. It's the feeling of the language that's important, and the feeling of the community. As long the languages understand each other and work to develop common ground, everything should be fine.

Perl 6 isn't a magic bullet, but what it is no more and no less another generation of Perl, community and all. Like the prod

Please, don't attempt to convince me that "Perl 6 is Perl 5, but more so." I am not buying it from Larry or Damian, and I am not buying it from you.:-)

The point here is that I will continue to use Perl 5, that there are substantial numbers of people that will do likewise, that if Perl 6 becomes what Larry and Damian want it to be, that there will be significant fracture of the community, and that we should think about that. If we don't, then the fractures will be very bad for everyone.

Now you can't seriously expect me to obey you and not try and convince
you about something in a public forum can you;-) Let me change the
argument and try a different stance. Perl 6 is Perl (...er but more
so...) in one respect, and one respect only...it, like the other
language that you love so much, is crafted and has been been delivered
into being by the Perl community.

Okay, let me reiterate this point, being a little less glib about the
whole thing.